In a major blow to Japan, Allied troops returned to free which of the areas from Japanese control in 1944?

Allied forces began returning to the Philippines in 1944, when U.S. troops landed on Leyte and fought to drive out Japanese forces. The Philippines is choice A. The Hawaiian Islands and India were not under Japanese control, and China was not the area being liberated in this 1944 campaign.

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